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SpaceX

United States of America · Commercial · EST. 2002

SpaceX is a commercial launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 2002. It has flown 744 launches under its own name. 729 succeeded and 15 failed, a success rate of 98.0%. Its next launch is Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-627, from Space Launch Complex 4E, set for November 12, 2026 at 02:35 UTC.

SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2026-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 06:29:09Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches744
Successful729
Failed15
Success rate98.0%
Consecutive successes229
Scheduled136
AdministratorCEO: Elon Musk
Founded2002

These are launches under SpX’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, SpX is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

Manifest role

LIVE COUNT
Flying as operator18
Named as customer0
Window reaches2026-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)136

No scheduled flight names SpX with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About SpX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

Upcoming launches

The next 12 of 18 scheduled. All of them

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

SpX in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Entrance to SpaceX headquarters
Entrance to SpaceX headquartersBruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño from Washington, DC, USA · CC BY 2.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Dragon 2 hover test (24159153709)
Dragon 2 hover test (24159153709)SpaceX Photos · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, CA
SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, CASpaceX · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many launches has SpaceX flown?
SpaceX has flown 744 launches under its own name. 729 succeeded and 15 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is SpaceX's success rate?
98.0%. That's 729 successful flights out of 744 attempts. Its last 229 launches in a row have succeeded.
When is SpaceX's next launch?
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-627, set for November 12, 2026 at 02:35 UTC from Space Launch Complex 4E. Launch Library files that T-0 to the minute. Launch times are no-earlier-than targets and can move.
Does SpaceX fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
SpaceX has flown 744 launches under its own name. It's the operator on 18 scheduled flights. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
Where is SpaceX based?
United States of America. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 2002.